Multi-Meter advice...

WyoTraveler wrote:

CA Traveler wrote:

BFL13 wrote:
Rather than the $10 type, which fry if you go over the 10amp limit, I now like the more expensive version that has a fuse in it. I am now ahead on the money buying fuses instead of new meters. :)

And that is exactly my point! With the low cost of DC clampon meters why would you even consider cutting or opening wires for a serial connected meter versa a clampon???

And here's my trick - Opening a circuit can and sometimes does change the conditions that you were trying to measure and hence the measurements isn't related to the original cause.

I use a small needle and poke through insulation.

Understood and I've done that. But the clampon capability of the clampon meter is invaluable for current measurements.